help fast!!!!!!!!!!

doubleupboarder10 · Outlaw Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 169 City: arizona

ok i am doing a report on wakeboarding and i need to know when wakeboading started. anyone know? when did wakeboarding get first introduced?

w$r az style · Soul Rider Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 384 City: Arizona

look in i tihnk alliance but might be wbm. thet tel you in a recent issue.

Todd Armstrong · Addict Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 758 City: Battle Ground

Go to Hyperlites website and read there self-ritcheous preopaganda

wakeriderof87 · Posted: Apr 21, 2003 7:04 am Post subject:

i think it was alliance, when i get home i can look it up and tell you, i think they said ppl rode long boards behind boats in the 50-60's, but they actually started using short boards with straps in the early 80's

Dirty$outhRida · Addict Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 665 City: Austin, Tx.

i did a report on that last week, goto hyperlite and goto history at the bottom and it will tell you

Crash · Posted: Apr 21, 2003 1:17 pm Post subject:

Here is the write up that I copied from the British Columbia Water Ski Association web site www.bcwsa.org

Wakeboarding has evolved from many different forms at different times to become what it is today: the fastest-growing water-sport in America.

For decades, surfing has been a favourite sport of beach dwellers. And in that time, historians recall surfers being towed with a ski rope behind a boat, and sometimes even from the shoreline by a truck. From this, shorter boards started being used. In 1985, a San Diego surfer named Tony Finn developed the Skurfer -- a hybrid of a water ski and a surfboard. It looked like a little surfboard, and was pulled by a boat while the rider performed surf-style carving moves on the wake. This riding style evokes visions of snowboarding and skateboarding with a bit of water skiing. Riders stood anywhere on these boards since there were no straps or bindings.

Herb O'Brien, a successful businessman in water skiing and owner of H.O. Sports, started tinkering with the boards at this time. He introduced the first compression-molded neutral-buoyancy wakeboard, the Hyperlite. This innovation sparked the massive growth of what today is known as wakeboarding. (The term skiboarding stuck around for a few years, but wakeboarding ultimately became the official name of this sport.) The Hyperlite's neutral buoyancy allowed the rider to submerge it for easy deepwater stars. Wakeboarding became accessible to everyone from 4 to 80 years of age.

As the sport grew, the boards continued to get better. The first Hyperlites, designed and built back in 1990, had the overall shape of a surfboard with an obvious tip and tail. In 1993, Jimmy Redmon researched and developed the 'twin-tip' design -- a symmetrical shape that has become today's standard in the sport. Twin-tip boards have a fin on both ends, allowing a centred stance that results in equal performance whether the wakeboarder rides in the forward or switchstance (fakie) position.

The World Wakeboard Association is the world-wide governing body of the sport. Redmon founded the WWA in 1989 and is considered the 'guru' of wakeboarding. He is responsible for developing the rules and formats to keep the integrity of the sport and the essence of wakeboarding in its present form. The BCWSA is the sanctioning body for British Columbia.

You may be able to find more details on the World Wakeboard Association web site.

Best of luck with your report.

Crash · Posted: Apr 21, 2003 1:18 pm Post subject:

Here is the write up that I copied from the British Columbia Water Ski Association web site www.bcwsa.org

Wakeboarding has evolved from many different forms at different times to become what it is today: the fastest-growing water-sport in America.

For decades, surfing has been a favourite sport of beach dwellers. And in that time, historians recall surfers being towed with a ski rope behind a boat, and sometimes even from the shoreline by a truck. From this, shorter boards started being used. In 1985, a San Diego surfer named Tony Finn developed the Skurfer -- a hybrid of a water ski and a surfboard. It looked like a little surfboard, and was pulled by a boat while the rider performed surf-style carving moves on the wake. This riding style evokes visions of snowboarding and skateboarding with a bit of water skiing. Riders stood anywhere on these boards since there were no straps or bindings.

Herb O'Brien, a successful businessman in water skiing and owner of H.O. Sports, started tinkering with the boards at this time. He introduced the first compression-molded neutral-buoyancy wakeboard, the Hyperlite. This innovation sparked the massive growth of what today is known as wakeboarding. (The term skiboarding stuck around for a few years, but wakeboarding ultimately became the official name of this sport.) The Hyperlite's neutral buoyancy allowed the rider to submerge it for easy deepwater stars. Wakeboarding became accessible to everyone from 4 to 80 years of age.

As the sport grew, the boards continued to get better. The first Hyperlites, designed and built back in 1990, had the overall shape of a surfboard with an obvious tip and tail. In 1993, Jimmy Redmon researched and developed the 'twin-tip' design -- a symmetrical shape that has become today's standard in the sport. Twin-tip boards have a fin on both ends, allowing a centred stance that results in equal performance whether the wakeboarder rides in the forward or switchstance (fakie) position.

The World Wakeboard Association is the world-wide governing body of the sport. Redmon founded the WWA in 1989 and is considered the 'guru' of wakeboarding. He is responsible for developing the rules and formats to keep the integrity of the sport and the essence of wakeboarding in its present form. The BCWSA is the sanctioning body for British Columbia.

You may be able to find more details on the World Wakeboard Association web site.

Best of luck with your report.

Dirty$outhRida · Addict Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 665 City: Austin, Tx.

man to bad i didnt make this post a week ago